© Gunnar Tómasson

21 August 2016

I. The First Heire of Shakespeare’s Inuention

(Venus and Adonis, Dedication 1593)

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   9987 = TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE

20084 = Henrie Vvriothesley, Earle of Southampton,

8814 = and Baron of Titchfield.

21943 = Right Honourable, I know not how I shall offend

23463 = in dedicating my vnpolisht lines to your Lordship,

25442 = nor how the worlde vvill censure mee for choosing

25266 = so strong a proppe to support so vveake a burthen,

17161 = onelye if your Honour seeme but pleased,

13387 = I account my selfe highly praised,

18634 = and vowe to take aduantage of all idle houres,

23217 = till I haue honoured you vvith some grauer labour.

23437 = But if the first heire of my inuention proue deformed,

15796 = I shall be sorie it had so noble a god-father:

12970 = and neuer after eare so barren a land,

16690 = for feare it yeeld me still so bad a haruest,

17496 = l leaue it to your Honourable suruey,

18884 = and your Honor to your hearts content,

27199 = vvhich I wish may alvvaies answere your ovvne vvish,

17766 = and the vvorlds hopefull expectation.

11662 = Your Honors in all dutie,

   9322 = William Shakespeare

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II. Barren Land Nourished with Christ’s Blood

(Saga Myth)

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5915 = Blóð Krists – Christ’s Blood

-4000 = Dark Sword – Pagan First Heire

Sacred Triangle of Pagan Iceland

7196 = Bergþórshváll

6067 = Miðeyjarhólmr

3027 = Helgafell

Macrocosmic Time

25920 = Platonic Great Year

Knowledge Increased

-6960 = Jarðlig skilning – Earthly Understanding

5596 = Andlig Spekðin – Spiritual Wisdom

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III. The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke

(Omega scene, First Folio 1623)

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  15079 = March afarre off, and shout within.

Hamlet

14387 = What warlike noyse is this?

6697 = Enter Osricke.

22993 = Yong Fortinbras, with conquest come frō. Poland

24474 = To th’Ambassadors of England giues this warlike volly.

Hamlet

5901 = O I dye Horatio:

24502 = The potent poyson quite ore-crowes my spirit,

19230 = I cannot liue to heare the Newes from England,

17032 = But I do prophesie th’election lights

14414 = On Fortinbras, he ha’s my dying voyce,

22842 = So tell him with the occurrents more and lesse,

23314 = Which haue solicited. The rest is silence. O, o, o, o. Dyes.

Horatio

10167 = Now cracke a Noble heart:

11836 = Goodnight sweet Prince,

18286 = And flights of Angels sing thee to thy rest,

14342 = Why do’s the Drumme come hither?

16923 = Enter Fortinbras and English Ambassador,

18137 = with Drumme, Colours, and Attendants.

Fortinbras:

10437 = Where is this sight?

Horatio:

12180 = What is it ye would see;

21128 = If ought of woe, or wonder, cease your search.

Fortinbras:

18987 = His quarry cries on hauocke. Oh proud death,

20646 = What feast is toward in thine eternall Cell.

17251 = That thou so many Princes, at a shoote,

11980 = So bloodily hast strooke.

Ambassador:

8962 = The sight is dismall,

17034 = And our affaires from England come too late,

22958 = The eares are senselesse that should giue vs hearing,

17106 = To tell him his command’ment is fulfill’d

17885 = That Rosincrance and Guildensterne are dead:

16857 = Where should we haue our thankes?

Horatio:

9607 = Not from his mouth,

15062 = Had it th’abilitie of life to thanke you:

16660 = He neuer gaue command’ment for their death.

22657 = But since so jumpe vpon this bloodie question,

20905 = You from the Polake warres, and you from England

18723 = Are heere arriued. Giue order that these bodies

14365 = High on a stage be placed to the view,

20828 = And let me speake to th’yet vnknowing world,

20781 = How these things came about. So shall you heare

16187 = Of carnall, bloudie, and vnnaturall acts,

20116 = Of accidentall iudgements, casuall slaughters

17748 = Of death’s put on by cunning, and forc’d cause,

19567 = And in this vpshot, purposes mistooke,

17470 = Falne on the Inuentors heads. All this can I

7002 = Truly deliuer.

Fortinbras:

10425 = Let vs hast to heare it,

14076 = And call the Noblest to the Audience.

20198 = For me, with sorrow, I embrace my Fortune,

18870 = I haue some Rites of memory in this Kingdome,

14639 = Which are ro claime my vantage doth

4289 = Inuite me.

Horatio:

18476 = Of that I shall haue alwayes cause to speake,

8322 = And from his mouth

16597 = Whose voyce will draw on more:

17888 = But let this same be presently perform’d,

15823 = Even whiles mens mindes are wilde,

8809 = Lest more mischance

12621 = On plots, and errors happen.

Fortinbras:

8917 = Let foure Captaines

15105 = Beare Hamlet like a Soldier to the Stage,

14203 = For he was likely, had he beene put on

12980 = To haue prou’d most royally:

7504 = And for his passage,

22923 = The Souldiours Musicke, and the rites of Warre

9882 = Speake lowdly for him.

15535 = Take vp the body; Such a sight as this

18956 = Becomes the Field, but heere shewes much amis.

12625 = Go, bid the Souldiers shoote.

17610 = Exeunt Marching: after the which, a Peale of

    9029 = Ordenance are shot off.

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I + II = 378620 + 42761 + 1117947 = 1539328

As in:

1529523 = Ben Jonson’s Commemorative Ode

     -1000 = Darkness

   10805 = Sweet Swan of Avon

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Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were

To see thee in our waters yet appeare.

(Ben Jonson, First folio, 1623)

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   11150 = To the memory of my beloved,

5329 = The AVTHOR

10685 = MR. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

867 = AND

9407 = what he hath left us.

17316 = To draw no envy (Shakespeare) on thy name,

13629 = Am I thus ample to thy Booke, and Fame:

20670 = While I confesse thy writings to be such,

19164 = As neither Man, nor Muse, can praise too much.

21369 = ‘Tis true, and all mens suffrage. But these wayes

20516 = Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise;

17686 = For seeliest Ignorance on these may light,

23213 = Which, when it sounds at best, but eccho’s right;

17565 = Or blinde Affection, which doth ne’re advance

19375 = The truth, but gropes, and urgeth all by chance;

18692 = Or crafty Malice, might pretend this praise,

19456 = And thinke to ruine, where it seem’d to raise.

18294 = These are, as some infamous Baud, or Whore,

23199 = Should praise a Matron: – What could hurt her more?

18170 = But thou art proofe against them, and indeed

16465 = Above th’ill fortune of them, or the need.

16324 = I, therefore, will begin. Soule of the Age!

20370 = The applause! delight! the wonder of our Stage!

18434 = My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by

16611 = Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lye

15597 = A little further, to make thee a roome:

17952 = Thou art a Moniment, without a tombe,

19673 = And art alive still, while thy Booke doth live,

19194 = And we have wits to read, and praise to give.

18259 = That I not mixe thee so, my braine excuses, –

22232 = I meane with great, but disproportion’d Muses;

19760 = For if I thought my judgement were of yeeres,

21584 = I should commit thee surely with thy peeres,

23104 = And tell, how farre thou didst our Lily out-shine,

19727 = Or sporting Kid, or Marlowes mighty line.

21016 = And though thou hadst small Latine, and lesse Greeke,

21296 = From thence to honour thee, I would not seeke

20635 = For names; but call forth thund’ring Æschilus,

14527 = Euripides, and Sophocles to us,

15939 = Paccuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead,

15425 = To life againe, to heare thy Buskin tread

19665 = And shake a Stage: Or, when thy Sockes were on,

14842 = Leave thee alone for the comparison

18781 = Of all that insolent Greece or haughtie Rome

20033 = Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.

21540 = Triumph, my Britaine, thou hast one to showe

18910 = To whom all Scenes of Europe homage owe.

14789 = He was not of an age, but for all time!

19879 = And all the Muses still were in their prime,

17867 = When, like Apollo, he came forth to warme

16143 = Our eares, or like a Mercury to charme!

19768 = Nature her selfe was proud of his designes,

18609 = And joy’d to weare the dressing of his lines!

22712 = Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit,

20715 = As, since, she will vouchsafe no other Wit.

16006 = The merry Greeke, tart Aristophanes,

22701 = Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please;

12944 = But antiquated, and deserted lye,

15906 = As they were not of Natures family.

17575 = Yet must I not give Nature all; Thy Art,

16885 = My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part:

17709 = For though the Poets matter, Nature be,

16202 = His Art doth give the fashion. And, that he,

24373 = Who casts to write a living line, must sweat

18045 = (such as thine are) and strike the second heat

17403 = Upon the Muses anvile: turne the same,

19618 = (And himselfe with it) that he thinkes to frame;

16266 = Or, for the lawrell, he may gaine a scorne,

15633 = For a good Poet’s made, as well as borne.

21914 = And such wert thou. Looke how the fathers face

15715 = Lives in his issue, even so, the race

20651 = Of Shakespeares minde and manners brightly shines

17328 = In his well torned and true-filed lines:

15712 = In each of which, he seemes to shake a Lance,

14757 = As brandish’t at the eyes of Ignorance.

21616 = Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were

17318 = To see thee in our waters yet appeare,

19678 = And make those flights upon the bankes of Thames,

14184 = That so did take Eliza and our James!

15161 = But stay, I see thee in the Hemisphere

14530 = Advanc’d, and made a Constellation there!

22500 = Shine forth, thou Starre of Poets, and with rage

19541 = Or influence, chide or cheere the drooping Stage;

24007 = Which, since thy flight frō hence, hath mourn’d like night,

18824 = And despaires day, but for thy Volumes light.

      4692 = BEN: IONSON

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